Dong-Eui University | |
Native Name: | Korean: 동의대학교 (東義大學校) |
Type: | Private |
Location: | Busan, South Korea |
Website: | eng.deu.ac.kr/main.do, www.demc.kr |
Dong-Eui University is a private university in Busan, a metropolitan city on the southeastern coast of South Korea. The university has 10 colleges, 116 master and doctoral courses in six graduate schools, with 22,992 students and 1,690 faculty and staff members. Dong-Eui is known for its medicine and engineering departments. It also has a reputation for management, health sciences, nursing, and a range of sciences.
The university opened in 1979, as a four-year college (Dong-Eui College, or 동의대학) with 400 students. It was established by the Dong-Eui Educational Foundation (est. 1966), which had also established a middle school, a high school and a junior college. Beginning in 1976, the foundation had also operated Kyungdong Engineering Professional School on the future site of the university campus. The college became a university in 1983, and opened its graduate school the following year. Dong-Eui Hospital and Korean Medicine Hospital of Dong-Eui University was opened as in June 1990.
The holdings of the University Library system include more than one million book volumes and 2,000 current serial publications. The library contains maps, newspapers, microforms, government documents, CD-ROMs, research reports, and videos. The system consists of Central Library and Korean Medicine Library.
The university has a rich heritage in intercollegiate athletics. The university has baseball, men's soccer, men's judo and fencing teams. The baseball team has won national championships four times.
The university maintains four residence hall complexes, which house approximately 3,200 students.